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Parquet Courts – Tenderness
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A. Savage to NPR:
“And last but not least, ‘Tenderness.’ I had this piano melody for ages, and it took me a long time to come to [the] realization that it could be a Parquet
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Parquet Courts – Total Football
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“Total Football” by Parquet Courts is the opening track to their sixth studio album, Wide Awake!.
The title comes from a tactical theory of the same name which was popularized in
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Parquet Courts – Plant Life
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[Verse 1] / Hanging on a limb warm from the wind / Cracking in the night just like a whip / Grown up a plastic commodity / Domestic rain will sanitize the scene / [Chorus
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Parquet Courts – Violence
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“Violence” is a self-explanatory progressive punk-rock take driven to the brim with jagged guitars and an Andrew Savage performance taking cues from the likes of Beastie Boys and
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Parquet Courts – Outside
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[Verse 1] / I saw a name in the graveyard that I knew / Glowing, like the neon in a lounge light / Spelled just the same as the twinge that crawls through you / As it passes slowly
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Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
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“Wide Awake” is the title track and second single from Parquet Courts' sixth studio album. A Mardi Gras-themed video was released the same day as the single on March 8, 2018.
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Parquet Courts – Freebird II
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The story behind Parquet Courts' “Freebird II” can be summarized in a track-by-track interview with NPR of the band’s frontman Andrew Savage.
The first running title of this song
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Parquet Courts – Black and White
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[Verse 1] / Nothing makes my heart so wild as being / In possession of a potent night / Racing down the stairs in a nude descension / Shedding and discarding my hide / But the bold
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Parquet Courts – Human Performance
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[Verse 1] / I know exactly where I was when I / First saw you the way I see you now, through these eyes / Waiting to retry / Those pristine days I recall so fondly / So few are
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Parquet Courts – Borrowed Time
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Parquet COURTS ARE AN AWESOME GARAGE ROCK GROUP FROM NEW YORK VIA TEXAS/BOSTON. They remind me of modern lovers and gun club with interesting narrative songs that seem based on the
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Parquet Courts – Extinction
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[Verse 1] / Making the distinction between life and lore / Odds favor the former when you wear a mask / Masochism forming in the reflection / And I’m trying not to turn into a
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Parquet Courts – Instant Disassembly
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Track 10 off of Sunbathing Animal (2014), a song as an impassioned speech to a lover in a collapsing relationship.
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Parquet Courts – Pulcinella
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[Verse 1] / I want things so much more than I want to sometimes / And it feels like my brain is the binary code's problem now / But I'd rather be stuffed with straw than made of
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Parquet Courts – Square States
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[Verse 1] / "How are you, how have you been?" / It's sad these days I find / We reveal ourselves in checkpoints, not in true moments of life / Now I wander through the awkward
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Parquet Courts – Already Dead
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An exclusive track, “Already Dead” appears as the opening song exclusively on all digital releases of Parquet Courts' fifth LP, Human Performance.
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Parquet Courts – Paraphrased
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[Verse 1] / Paraphrased / Can't be quoted, it's hard to say / Paralyzed / Doesn't move, it just blinks its eyes / Paranoid / Just another trap to avoid / Parallel / Never crosses
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Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
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Sunbathing Animal is the first single and 8th track off Parquet Courts sophomore album Sunbathing Animal, which is set to drop June 3rd, 2014.
It alludes to the dangerous
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Parquet Courts – Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth
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Twelfth and final track on Parquet Courts 2014 album Content Nausea, released under the band name “Parkay Quarts.”
“Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth” is essentially an evolution
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Parquet Courts – Normalization
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[Verse 1] / Faced with a decision: / What do I call bullshit? / A contemporary dilemma / Can I allow this? / [Chorus 1] / Normalization, what am I thinking? / Immunization, power
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Parquet Courts – Content Nausea
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Second track on Parquet Courts‘ 2014 album Content Nausea, released under the band name “Parkay Quarts”
The album’s titular song explores the detrimental impact of devices and
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Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts – Memphis Blues Again
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[Verse 1] / Functionalism's a bore / Modernism's a chore / Bauhaus school makes me snore / Why do people adore / Steel tubes bent to a frame / All their shit looks the same / Le
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Parquet Courts – Trullo
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[Verse 1] / I've grown tired of living inside a house that's not a head / Tempted on the porch, walk through the door, that's how it's fed / A bedlike tongue to cradle my bones and
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Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts (Ft. Karen O) – Pretty Prizes
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"Lentamente per favore" / Was all I asked him but he ignored me / View of Il Duomo, brand new sound system / Sweating profusely he calls me his kitten / I saw his wallet out on the
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Parquet Courts – Pretty Machines
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This song seems as if it’s almost touching on a similar topic as the title track of the album. Pretty machines could be referring to devices.
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Parquet Courts – N Dakota
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this song (off Light Up Gold) is about the various sights of the state of North Dakota. it has kind of a dreary tone, which reflects the state it describes
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Parquet Courts – Mardi Gras Beads
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[Verse 1] / Your glance sings of lyrics 'cite from memory / It's sad our goodbyes sound nostalgic / Your chords swung me from an ol' holler tree / I'm living like a vagabond that
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Parquet Courts – Before the Water Gets Too High
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[Verse 1] / Seldom have I ever questioned the end / Still I grow frost when I'm reminded / Euphemisms on a loop interchange / Which hands get to turn the final page? / In whose
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Parquet Courts – Descend (The Way)
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Traveled boots, they fit right / Leather creased by steps since I lose squalor / Aged like wine but still there's a hum / Climbing midway up the map / Other pavement, dress school
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Parquet Courts – Homo Sapien
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[Verse 1] / What a time to be alive / A TV set in the fridge / A voice that recites the news / And leaves out the gloomy bits / A god for the modern soul / With even, paternal
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Parquet Courts – Insufferable
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Tenth track on Parquet Courts 2014 album Content Nausea, released under the band name “Parkay Quarts.”
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Parquet Courts – Marathon of Anger
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[Verse 1] / This city has changed as the kettle got tighter / We changed our shape and shot the truth up like a cure / We've got the power / The streets are walkin', a marathon of
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Parquet Courts – NYC Observation
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[Verse 1] / Living in proximity of a dollar / Trying to get ahead of the pack / But you never learned, you never got it did ya? / How to glide past people sleeping on the sidewalk
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Parquet Courts – Watching Strangers Smile
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[Verse 1] / Watching strangers smile / Never knew it was a privilege / Until the wide fearful eyes was all I saw / Filling out forms as the hold music loops / Now I've been trapped
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Parquet Courts – Berlin Got Blurry
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This song, like its accompanying video, seems to be a travelogue of a foreign person visiting Berlin. Parquet Courts turn their usual keen lyrical eye on both the physical details
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Parquet Courts – Walking at a Downtown Pace
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[Verse 1] / I'm making plans for the day all of this is through / Seeing my path and hearing the song I'll sing / And food that I'll taste and all the drinks that I'll consume
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Parquet Courts – Master of My Craft
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[Verse 1] / I got a gold medal, record time, gold record, diamond mines / Name's in print, tongue, t-shirts and minds / Thread counts high and commissions high / Hourly rates high
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Parquet Courts – The Map
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Eighth track on Parquet Courts 2014 album *Content Nausea, released under the band name “Parkay Quarts.”
It is an abstract monologue over the instrumental, detailing a trip to a
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Parquet Courts – Raw Milk
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Awake in an unmade nest / Peepers hacking into day / Well, I've heard that sound so many times / It terrifies and comforts me / Scratching at the door / It's time / First she
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Parquet Courts – Stoned and Starving
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The lead singer of Parquet Courts, Andrew Savage, wrote this song after one night’s experience. It’s as literal as can be. He says:
You know, in New York, there’s so many
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Parquet Courts – Just Shadows
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[Verse 1] / Delivery, mouth watering / Optimized for pleasure, it seems / I fucks with it not / It can't be helped, thy police state / Fodder to a vast database / Under influence
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Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts (Ft. Karen O) – Flush
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[Intro] / Waters / Waters / [Verse 1] / Sweet waters on my brain / Flush down the drain / Mixed in the gutter with the rain / And here we are (Here we are) / Back again (Back again
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Parquet Courts – American Specialties
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Rock band / Attention span / Disposable riffs / Charts and hits / Half full stadiums / TV channels and computers / Facebook pages, boring, boring / Rock and roll has got me snoring
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Parquet Courts – Donuts Only
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[Verse 1] / Like a red state's Baptist fervor / Like a small town's unsolved murder / Some secrets are just best resting / In the tombs of buried thought slums / As for Texas
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